About

D.M. Lamer is a multidisciplinary American artist whose work moves between oil painting, printmaking, digital media, and sculpture to explore the shifting architectures of memory, perception, and emotional reality. Based between Connecticut and New York, Lamer’s practice draws from lived experience but transcends representation — constructing fragmented, tactile worlds shaped by time, movement, and feeling.

Originally rooted in traditional printmaking and fine art photography, Lamer’s early work honored the subtle transformations of the natural world, particularly the changing seasons of New England’s forests, rivers, and valleys. His acclaimed series For the Trees captured this reverence for landscape, light, and impermanence through meticulously crafted archival prints.

Today, Lamer’s work expands far beyond observation.

His paintings and mixed media pieces no longer seek to depict external reality, but to reconstruct the inner remnants of experience — the fleeting impressions, distortions, and emotional afterimages that memory leaves behind.

Through expressive oil painting, digital manipulation, layered print processes, and emerging sculptural forms, he creates compositions that move between material and immaterial, solidity and disintegration.

Lamer’s visual language is marked by tension: between presence and absence, between construction and decay, between clarity and dissolution.

Influenced by the visceral distortion of Chaim Soutine, the emotional fields of Mark Rothko, and the physical materiality of Anselm Kiefer, his work embraces fragmentation as a primary means of truth-telling.

Material integrity remains central to Lamer’s practice.

Whether in his paintings, prints, or sculptures, he works with archival pigments, centuries-old papers, traditional grounds, and tactile surfaces that honor the physical endurance of art across time. Each piece undergoes an extended process of layering, erasure, and reformation — a method that mirrors the way memory itself accumulates and dissolves.

In parallel to his studio practice, Lamer documents his evolving journey through an ongoing series of art pilgrimages — filmed encounters with seminal artworks and spaces that resonate with his inquiry into impermanence, distortion, and the reconstruction of self through art. These recorded reflections form an extended meditation on lineage, influence, and the act of artistic becoming.

Lamer’s work is held in private collections across New England and the American West, and has been exhibited regionally. He continues to build a body of work that does not simply depict the world, but reimagines the emotional architectures that memory, history, and perception leave behind — offering spaces of reflection, rupture, and quiet resonance.

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